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What Is GMO? Its consequences on our health.

Products we celebrate: Kids, Women, Family

Skin Care Pledge – What are you going to do about your skin health this season?

Charity,
There is so much to learn about GMO’s. My husband who was not on board with me about organics is now after reading about what they have been doing to the crops and how it can effect us in the long run (as he stated to me. It is not effecting us today but will effect our sons children and so forth).

Congratulations on the new grand baby. You will love being a grandmother. I started looking into baby things when I found out I was going to be a new great grandmother (in May). I too, am amazed at the new products out there. Things have certainly changed since I was a new mother — over 40 years ago. There is a lot to learn but at least we now have these blogs and the knowledge and resources, literally at our finger tips.

These GMO products are important to me to use on children because we are clogging their bodies up with so many artificial chemicals in all of our foods and products we need to start to cleanse it out of their systems. This would be a good start.

Congratulations on the 2 new grandchildren. How exciting! I love babies. I am expecting my first great grandchild in May. I will be watching her while her mother goes to school. I am trying to learn all I can about what’s new out there and what is frightening for our children.

GMO(genetically modified organisms) are foods that has been inserted with genetic material from another species in order to give them certain desirable properties. Then how to avoid them by buying organic foods, look for no- GMO certification, and avoid processed foods.

This is crazy i never knew about this. I respect they are thinking about the health of people. I hardly eat wheat bread. You would be surprise on the things they put in foods and don’t tell you. This is important to know because we as a whole country is trying to stop or find ways to stop obesity.

It is not just in wheat it is in corn as well!
Heck, there was just a article out recently that GMO alfalfa was approved to be sent out even though it was not test properly. The alfalfa is to given to the animals that we the people consume.

yes it is so scary what they put in our food and products that we use everyday I have to say I live where we can have our own garden and plant our own food and we stay away from all the pesticides but you can always avoid the GMO they are in every thing I think the health of our children has changed from all this bad stuff they put in our food think about autism 1-88 of kids has autism not saying this is causing it or not but it sure is on the rise

Sarah,
It is not just in wheat it is in corn as well and some fruits and veggies are GMO. Your best bet it to buy organic when looking at veggies and fruit. The other stuff just be careful because even though it may state organic it may contain GMO’s.

What about the fruits and veggies by local farming found at your local markets can i gwt gmo free things thete or do i have too look somewhere special i always thought by buying from the growier i was safe

I never knew much about GMO, till last year. I was shocked to find out about it. I guess I shouldn’t be though. I try to buy foods that do not have GMO’s in them. I don’t want my kids eating stuff with that crap in it. I wish I could my own food.

Rebecca,
This stuff is scary. With all the years those huge industries were trying to come up with a “sturdy crop” of grains and vegetables and fruit and what-not – only to find out that –>
• BEES are dying –> no pollination, no food, no life
• PEOPLE developing diseases that cannot be treated with available means

GMO’s are genetically modified via insertion or modification of the normal (wild type) genetic makeup. Long term effects are not understood and ultimately these food items should undergo further testing before they are released to the public. I am not completely against their use, just wish there was more information available on their long term effects.

Do you know that organic and GMO free skin care products allow for better brain connections to form in our children?
This is one of the reasons why BABO Botnicals is GMO free and uses only non-toxic ingredients in their products!

We will be Celebrating at Full Swing this weekend with BABO its 4th Birthday.

What To Do?
• Visit BABO and tell me What You Would Like To See In your Child’s Bathtub! We will bring it to you! Name all products that you would like to have at once!

I will get the Deluxe Baby Gift Set. It would be great to have because babies has different skin then we do. It’s good to use non toxic ingredients to ensure that a baby has the right proper care while in the tub.

Hi everyone! I love a good conversation in the am with someone besides my 5 year old daughter although I do love my am cuddles.
I do pledge the GMO free home. I pledge to continue to use only non toxic and natural products for my child’s skin and mine as we’ll.